Committees - ACGIH

Experts Advancing ACGIH

Committees are established by and responsible to the Board of Directors. The activities of each Committee are directed by an individual mission statement. Committee members are appointed by the Board of Directors; any ACGIH member interested in volunteering for possible appointment may do so by writing to the Chair of ACGIH in care of the Headquarters Office (3640 Park 42 Drive | Cincinnati, Ohio 45241; phone: 513-742-2020, e-mail: customerservice@acgih.org).

Committee members are not authorized to speak with stakeholders or distribute information about TLVs, BEIs, and other ACGIH guidelines that are under development. Committee members are not authorized to speak as representatives of ACGIH about ACGIH and/or the TLVs, BEIs, and other ACGIH guidelines at scientific meetings, symposia, etc. without consent from ACGIH. (Click here to view the ACGIH Public Affairs and Communications Policy and the ACGIH Information Release Policy.)

ACGIH-AIHA-JOEH Interaction Committee

This Committee strengthens the profession by strengthening the relationship between the two groups (ACGIH and AIHA); seeks out areas where collaboration would be cost-effective; selects projects which would compliment both organizations; and recognizes the equal, but different, core missions of the two organizations.

Current members of ACGIH-AIHA-JOEH Interaction Committee:

Position	Name
Member AIHA President	J. Lindsay Cook, CIH, CSP, FAIHA
Member JOEH President	William A. Groves, PhD, MPH, CIH, CSP
Member ACGIH Third-Year Representative	Thomas J. Lentz, PhD
Member ACGIH Board Chair	COL(Ret.) Mary S. Lopez, PhD, CPE
Member AIHA President-Elect	John Mulhausen, PhD, CIH, CSP
Member AIHA Past President	Kathleen S. Murphy, CIH
Member ACGIH Treasurer	Nancy E. Wilk, HBSc, MHSc, CIH
Ex Officio ACGIH Interim Executive Director	Phillip Rauscher, MPH, CIH, CSP
Ex Officio AIHA Chief Executive Officer	Lawrence D. Sloan, CAE

Audit & Finance Committee

To assist the Board of Directors in fulfilling its oversight responsibilities as they relate to the financial reporting process, internal controls, and the annual audit. The Committee will maintain an effective working relationship with the Board of Directors, ACGIH® management, and the organization’s independent external auditors. The Committee shall prepare and submit to the Board of Directors each year an annual budget. The Committee shall have supervision over investing and reinvesting ACGIH® funds. The Committee shall meet at least once annually.

Current members of Audit & Finance Committee:

Position	Name
Chair	Lilia Chen, CIH, MS
Internal Auditor	COL(Ret.) Mary S. Lopez, PhD, CPE
Member	Jack Caravanos, DrPH, CIH
Member	John McKernan, ScD, CIH
Staff Liaison	Rob Keithley
Staff Liaison	Phillip Rauscher, MPH, CIH, CSP

Awards Committee

To select an individual(s), a group(s), or both to be given an award for outstanding contributions to occupational and environmental hygiene. Current members are:

Position	Name
Chair	COL(Ret.) Mary S. Lopez, PhD, CPE
Member	Lilia Chen, CIH, MS
Member	George R. Gruetzmacher, PhD, PE, CIH
Member	Sheryl A. Milz, PhD, MOD, CIH, FAIHA
Member	Bruce D. Naumann, PhD, DABT
Staff Liaison	Phillip Rauscher, MPH, CIH, CSP

Bioaerosols Committee

To compile and disseminate information on biologically derived contaminants that may become airborne, to develop recommendations for assessment, control, remediation, and prevention of such hazards, and to establish criteria for bioaerosol exposure limits. Current members are:

Position	Name
Chair	John P. Springston, CIH, CSP, FAIHA
Vice Chair	Cheri Marcham, PhD, CIH, CSP, CHMM, FAIHA
Member	Ginger L. Chew, ScD, MSPH
Member	John David Krause, PhD, MSPH, CIH
Member	Francis J. Offermann, PE, CIH
Member	James A. Scott, PhD
Member	Robert Strode, MS, CIH
Consultant	K. A. N. Aithinne, PhD, GSP, CPH
Consultant	Harriet Ammann, PhD, DABT
Consultant	David I. Bernstein, MD
Consultant	Jonathan A. Bernstein, MD
Consultant	Erin Bouttenot
Consultant	Lisa M. Brosseau, ScD, CIH, AFOH
Consultant	Hung K. Cheung, MD, MPH, FACOEM
Consultant	Albert Victor Condello, III, CSP, CHMM, NREMT
Consultant	Ian Cull, PE, CIH
Consultant	James E. DePaoli, CIH, CSP
Consultant	Stephen J. Derman, CIH, FAIHA
Consultant	Cynthia Ellwood, PhD, CIH
Consultant	Philip G. Hauck, MSHS
Consultant	Stephen King, PhD, MDiv, MPH
Consultant	Andrey A. Korchevskiy, PhD, DABT, CIH
Consultant	James P. Kornberg, ScD, MD
Consultant	James A. LaMondia, PhD
Consultant	Stephen R. Larson, MS, CIH, CSP, RBP, RRPT
Consultant	De-Wei Li, PhD
Consultant	Joseph William Lstiburek, PhD
Consultant	Kenneth F. Martinez, CIH
Consultant	Nicole V. McCollough, PhD, CIH
Consultant	William D. Mele, CIEC, RCCP-SCF, RCP-FH
Consultant	J. David Miller, PhD
Consultant	Neil P. Schultes, PhD
Consultant	Richard J. Shaughnessy, PhD
Consultant	Luis E. Smith, CIH, FLAC
Consultant	Simon J. Smith, PhD
Consultant	Peter S. Thorne, PhD
Consultant	Ching-Yi Tsai, PhD
Consultant	Paula H. Vance, RM/SM(NRCM), SM(ASCP), CIE
Consultant	Steven Welty, CIE, CAFS, LEED, AP
Consultant	Chin Shan Yang, PhD
Board Liaison	Col. (Ret.) Mary S. Lopez, PhD, CPE
Staff Liaison	Erica Rosalle

Biological Exposure Indices Committee

To develop occupational biological exposure guidelines that are scientifically valid and supported by professional judgment, up-to-date, well-documented, understandable and clear, and produced by a clearly-defined process that is balanced and free of conflict of interest. Current members are:

Position	Name
Chair	Larry K. Lowry, PhD
Vice Chair	Nancy B. Hopf, PhD
Vice Chair-Elect	Lee M. Blum, PhD, F-ABFT
Member	Michael Bader, Dr. rer. nat.
Member	Jean Grassman, PhD, MS, CPH
Member	Kate Jones, MPhil
Member	Heiko U. Kaefferlein, Dr. rer. nat.
Member	Leena A. Nylander-French, PhD, CIH
Consultant	Philip Edelman
Board Liaison	Cathy Hovde, MS, CIH, CSP
Staff Liaison	Erica Rosalle

Industrial Ventilation Committee

To provide a safe and healthful environment by integrating state-of-the-art information from government and industry sources, using them to develop and recommend ventilation and other engineering controls to capture, collect, filter, and remove airborne contaminants from the workplace.

Current members of Industrial Ventilation Committee:

Position	Name
Chair	Jonathan F. Hale, MPA
Vice Chair	Robert Shearer
Member	James S. Bennett, PhD
Member	Sergio A. Caporali Filho, PhD, CSP, CIH
Member	Robert Dayringer, CIH
Member	Matt Diestler, EIT
Member	George R. Gruetzmacher, PhD, PE, CIH
Member	Christopher P. Manning, PhD
Member	Dale Price
Member	Rafael Sartim, PhD
Member	Jennifer L. Topmiller, MS
Consultant	Thomas Godbey, Jr
Consultant	Howard Goodfellow PhD, FET, P.Eng
Consultant	Daniel Josephs
Consultant	Gerry A. Lanham, PE
Consultant	Ali Reza Rahmati, MS
Board Liaison	Edward T. Zellers, PhD
Staff Liaison	Erica Rosalle

Joint Industrial Hygiene Ethics Education Committee (JIHEEC)

In 1995, the Boards of AAIH, ABIH, ACGIH®, and AIHA adopted a joint Code of Ethics to which members of these organizations shall conform, and to which every applicant attests by signing his or her membership application.

The Ethics Education Committee is simply that — an educational resource. The group is not an enforcement group or resolution board, but serves the membership by bringing to its attention ethical dilemmas facing the IH, and can serve as a sounding board for challenges facing the professional. In all cases, the Committee is guided by the canons of ethics

Current members of Joint Industrial Hygiene Ethics Education Committee (JIHEEC):

Position	Name
Chair	Alan Leibowitz, CIH, CSP
Immediate Past Chair	John Nicholas Rice, CIH
Member	Glenn J. Barbi, CIH
Member	Michael R. Cooper, CIH, CSP, MPH
Member	Pamela L. Greenley, CIH
Member	Bruce E. Lippy, PhD, CIH, CSP
Member	Nancy Manning McClellan, MPH, CIH, CHMM
Member	J. Torey Nalbone, PhD, CIH, FAIHA
Member	Steven Rucker, CIH, CHMM
Staff Liaison	Vicky Yobp, CAE

Nominating Committee

Select a list of nominees for Board Directors and Nominating Committee for the annual election.

Current members of Nominating Committee:

Position	Name
Chair	Thomas J. Lentz, PhD
Member	Joaquin M. Diaz, CIH, CSP, CHST, OHST
Member	COL(Ret.) Mary S. Lopez, PhD, CPE
Member	J. Torey Nalbone, MS, PhD, CIH
Member	Anthony Oliveri, PhD, CIH
Member	Nancy E. Wilk, HBSc, MHSc, CIH
Staff Liaison	Phillip Rauscher, MPH, CIH, CSP

Threshold Limit Values for Chemical Substances Committee

To recommend airborne concentrations of agents and exposure conditions for use in the practice of industrial hygiene and by other qualified professionals to protect worker health.

Current members of Threshold Limit Values for Chemical Substances Committee:

Position	Name
Chair	Rachel Rubin, MD, MPH, FACP
Vice Chair	Michael DeLorme, PhD
Member	Marcy I. Banton, DVM, PhD, DABVT
Member	Jeremy R. Beach, MB, BS, MD
Member	William S. Beckett, MD, MPH
Member	Dennis M. Casserly, PhD, CIH, FAIHA
Member	Hugh W. Davies, PhD, MSc, BSC, CIH
Member	Laura Deakin, PhD, MPH
Member	Alison Elder, PhD
Member	Deborah C. Glass, MA, MSc, PhD
Member	Ian A. Greaves, MD
Member	Gerald L. Kennedy, Jr.
Member	Michael T. Kleinman, PhD
Member	Mark Korchinski, MSc, DABT, ERT
Member	John Murphy, BSc, MHSc, MBA, PhD, ROH, CIH, MACE
Member	Bruce D. Naumann, PhD, DABT
Member	Edward V. Sargent, PhD, MPH, DABT
Member	Candace Tsai, ScD, CIH
Member	James Wagner, PhD
Board Liaison	Thomas M. Peters, MS, PhD, CIH
Staff Liaison	Skye Bickett, DHSc, MLIS

Threshold Limit Values for Physical Agents Committee

To develop occupational exposure guidelines for physical agents, including those of an acoustic, electromagnetic, radiological, ergonomic, mechanical, and thermal nature.

Current members of Threshold Limit Values for Physical Agents Committee:

Position	Name
Chair	Richard L. Neitzel, PhD, CIH, FAIHA
Vice Chair	Stephanie C. Griffin, PhD, CIH
Member	Martin Cherniack, MD, MPH
Member	Kenneth R. Foster, PhD, PE
Member	Karl Friedl, PhD
Member	Laurel Kincl, PhD, CSP
Member	Bernard Martin, PhD
Member	David M. Rempel, MD, MPH, CPE
Member	Michael Schmoldt, CIH, PE, CHMM, MS, MPH, MBA
Member	David H. Sliney, PhD
Member	Suzanne D. Smith, PhD
Member	June T. Spector, MD, MPH
Member	Bruce E. Stuck, MS, ScD
Consultant	Beth A. Beidleman, ScD
Consultant	Thomas E. Bernard, PhD, CIH
Consultant	George C. Brainard, PhD
Consultant	Anthony J. Brammer, PhD
Consultant	John William Castellani, PhD
Consultant	Steven Chervak
Consultant	Hugh W. Davies, PhD, MSc, BSC, CIH
Consultant	Robert R. Fox, PhD, CPE
Consultant	Peter W. Johnson, PhD
Consultant	Kenneth Kase, PhD
Consultant	Jay Kim, PhD
Consultant	Steven A. Lavender, PhD, CPE
Consultant	Steven W. Lockley, PhD
Consultant	David J. Lund
Consultant	William S. Marras, PhD
Consultant	Thais C. Morata, PhD
Consultant	James R. Potvin
Consultant	James P. Seward, MD, MPP, MMM
Consultant	Imelda Wong, PhD
Board Liaison	Neil J. Zimmerman, PhD, PE, CIH, FAIHA
Staff Liaison	Erica Rosalle